This citation index can be used to find articles that cite a particular article. It covers arts and humanities, including film and television, 1975 - present. Indexes articles from over 1,100 arts and humanities journals published worldwide in all languages (note that many journals are NOT included).

Use this resource to search for articles from scholarly journals or popular magazines, and from a select number of newspapers. It is comprised of the complete content and functionality of Academic Search Premier, MasterFILE Premier, Business Source Premier, and Regional Business News.

A bibliographical resource offering coverage of hundreds of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals right up to the present day. Many of these key titles are available here in full text including complete runs.

Use this database to find research articles, commentaries and more on film & television issues. List of titles included. Aspects covered include theory, preservation & restoration, writing, production, cinematography, reviews (back to 1914) and more. The database allows full searching of more than 270 publications and selected coverage of 300 more. Articles are available for more than 80 journals and texts from nearly 50 books. If the article you are interested in is not available online, click the Find It-button to see if the article is available in another library database, or to see if the library has the article in print.

The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database. Includes full text access to over 4,000 scholarly (peer-reviewed) publications back to 1975. A great place to start your research on any topic. Find search tips on their help page.

LexisNexis Academic is a full text databases of business, legal, news, magazines, and wire services. It includes sources for accounting, environmental studies, health and medical care, government and politics, people, and consumer information. Legal publications include law journals, federal and state statutes, codes, cases, agency rules & regulations, patents and legal reference materials.

This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. MasterFILE Premier provides full text for more than 2,000 general magazines covering a broad range of disciplines. It includes Magill Book Reviews, reference and travel books, biographies, full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.

ProQuest Newspapers provides indexing and full text access to 1,270 newspapers and wire feeds. Full-text titles include major U.S. daily newspapers such as the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

Catalogs and Bibliographies

Provides information on American-made films between 1893 and 1972. Unique features: ability to find films by topic; article reference list for a film. Links to library holdings of articles (Find It links). Note: For films made after 1972, use Film Index International which is also available from the University Libraries.

Libraries Media Services homepage. Includes search widget used to search for films and videos in the Libraries at the University of Minnesota. Simplified interface for searching film and videos in MNCAT, the library catalog.

This directory lists information for nearly a quarter-million serial records such as newspapers, popular and trade magazines, and academic and scholarly journals. The listings include active, ceased, and forthcoming publications, and they can be searched by country, subject headings, circulation numbers, and many more options.

General Reference Sources

The BGMI contains biographical entries from more than 1,000 current and retrospective biographical reference sources. This figure translates into some 15 million biographies on nearly 5 million people, living and deceased, from all time periods, geographical locations, and fields of endeavor.

Biographical reference providing information on individuals active in the theatre, film, and television industries. Covers not only performers, directors, writers, and producers, but also behind-the-scenes specialists such as designers, managers, choreographers, technicians, composers, executives, dancers, and critics from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and the world.

Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988. These include the University of Minnesota and other CIC member universities:http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/CICUniversities.shtml. Masters theses from selected schools only.

Internet Resources

From the about-section: filmjourney.org hopes to address a diverse assortment of films and give special attention to their historical, formal, and human values. Editor Doug Cummings has a degree in film from the University of Arizona and is a co-founder of Masters of Cinema and Robert-Bresson.com.

Use to find information on approximately 60,000 Swedish films, including every Swedish feature film made since 1897. Also included are non-Swedish films that have premiered in Sweden, short films, documentary films, and Swedish made-for-TV movies.

The most comprehensive movie source on the web. Provides information on movies around the world, from earliest times to the latest releases. Includes filmographies , plot summaries, reviews, biograhical data, etc.

The Motion Picture Scripts Database provides a searchable interface to the film script holdings of six Los Angeles-area collections: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Film Institute, the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, and the Writers Guild Foundation. This database is limited almost exclusively to the screenplays of produced films; that is, films which were actually made. The only exception is the inclusion of a few published scripts of unproduced films.

With a collection of nearly 52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages and from 56 countries, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute's archive is the largest visual history archive in the world. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors, homosexual survivors, Jehovah's Witness survivors, liberators and liberation witnesses, political prisoners, rescuers and aid providers, Roma and Sinti survivors (Gypsy), survivors of Eugenics policies, and war crimes trials participants.
Developed by the USC Shoah Foundation for Visual History and Education
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Free web-based bibliographic citation software developed for Firefox browsers that is useful for organizing your research sources, creating bibliographies and sharing sources with others. Zotero will capture bibliographic information and links to documents found on websites or library databases. See the brief tutorials for Getting Started.